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Mint the leading financial daily rates Health insurance plans based on a variety of parameters. In this two part series, we will look at the best Health Insurance or Mediclaim plans based on Mint’s rating. Mint rates...

Equity Linked Savings Scheme (ELSS) is the best tax saving (Section 80C) investment option for investors looking to create long term wealth. In our blog, we have discussed the benefits of ELSS a number of times (please see our post, ELSS is...

A comprehensive understanding of risk plays the most important in making investment decisions. However, the average the retail investor often does not know how to determine this. When a financial adviser...

ICICI Prudential Multicap Fund was launched nearly 23 years back. If you invested Rs 10,000 in the scheme when it was launched, then its investment value now would be around Rs 2.62 lakhs. The performance of this scheme in the last 5 years has been...

Credit Opportunities funds, sometimes also known as corporate bond funds, are similar to short term debt funds. While short term debt funds are good investment options over a one to two years investment horizon for conservative investors...

Most retail investors think only of the pharmaceuticals sector in the healthcare theme. However, healthcare is a much broader theme than pharmaceuticals – pharmaceuticals sector is a subset of the healthcare space. The global...

When it comes to investments made for the purpose of tax savings under Section 80C of Income Tax Act, Public Provident Fund (PPF), Life Insurance premiums and Equity Linked Savings Schemes (ELSS)...

Market cycles are realities that all equity investors have to live with. Over the past 15 years, we had three bear market cycles. Some economists are of the opinion that market cycles will get shorter in the future. However, irrespective of...

The last one year has been very difficult for equity markets. Though weakness was seen across the breadth of the market, the large cap market segment saw the biggest decline. In the last one year while the S&P CNX 500 index fell by 11%, the Nifty...

It is tax planning season now and Equity Linked Saving Schemes (ELSS) should be one of the top investment choices for investors. Some investors have a notion, that while ELSS is a good tax saving investment...